Ada Booth Slavic Collection

Title

Ada Booth Slavic Collection

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/1959.1/1300149

Description

The Ada Booth Slavic Collection was established in 2011 as a result of the Library receiving a large benefaction from the will of the late Ada Phyllis Booth (1921-2008), physicist and lecturer at the University of Melbourne.

Reflecting research which has been undertaken at Monash University, the main subject areas covered by the collection are Russian, Ukrainian and other literatures, Slavic linguistics as well as Translation Studies topics in Slavic languages. Other strengths of the collection include histories of Russia and Eastern Europe, politics and art. There are also many reference texts such as dictionaries and encyclopedias. Monash University Library has the best collection of materials in Australia pertaining to Ukrainian Studies.

Monash University Library is progressively digitising selected items from this collection.

Diary of Sergeant. C. J. Fowler, who at a later date changed his name to Claude James Booth. The diary begins when Fowler was part of the 58th Battalion in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) in 1918 when he has just returned to London on active…